The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 946
INMATE LABOR AND CORRECTIONAL WORK PROGRAMS

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F.S. 946.502

946.502 Legislative intent with respect to operation of correctional work programs.—

(1) It is the intent of the Legislature that a nonprofit corporation lease and manage the correctional work programs of the Department of Corrections.

(2) It is further the intent of the Legislature that, once one such nonprofit corporation is organized, no other nonprofit corporation be organized for the purpose of carrying out this part. In carrying out this part, the corporation is not an “agency” within the meaning of s. 20.03(1).

(3) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the corporation shall lease all correctional work programs from the department.

(4) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the state shall have a continuing interest in assuring continuity and stability in the operation of correctional work programs and that this part be construed in furtherance of such goals.

(5) It is further the intent of the Legislature that, although the state has a continuing interest in correctional work programs, such programs can best operate independently of state government.

(6) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the corporation will devise and operate correctional work programs to utilize inmates of all custody levels, with specific emphasis on reducing idleness among close custody inmates.

History.—s. 2, ch. 83-209; ss. 1, 2, ch. 83-345; s. 1, ch. 84-280; ss. 4, 5, ch. 87-286; s. 27, ch. 89-526; s. 1, ch. 96-270; s. 1, ch. 2001-242; s. 131, ch. 2023-8.

Note.—Former s. 946.01.

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Amendments to 946.502

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 946.502

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 946.502.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC. v. PLANCHER, 121 So. 3d 1097 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . Id. at 780 (quoting § 946.502(4), Fla. Stat. (2011)). . . .

PAGAN v. SARASOTA COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL BOARD, d b a SMH a d b a L. M. D. M. M. D., 884 So. 2d 257 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2004)

. . . .; § 946.502, Fla. Stat. (1988). . . .

GAMBETTA, v. PRISON REHABILITATIVE INDUSTRIES AND DIVERSIFIED ENTERPRISES, INC. J. PRIDE, J. PRIDE, K. L., 112 F.3d 1119 (11th Cir. 1997)

. . . in Chapter 946 that the program authorized “can best operate independently of state government,” § 946.502 . . .

PRISON REHABILITATIVE INDUSTRIES v. BETTERSON,, 648 So. 2d 778 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

. . . Although the resulting legislation recites in subsection 946.502(5) that the correctional work programs . . . that “the state [has] a continuing interest in assuring continuity and stability” of the programs. § 946.502 . . . policies and procedures established by PRIDE relating to the use of inmates in its work programs); § 946.502 . . . The declaration in subsection 946.502(2) that PRIDE is not an agency within the meaning of subsection . . .